Quarantine descended on the West just at the point when the madness seemed too much to bear. Tax sheep in the crucible of tedium, we found that spinning plates just to keep the GDP high had lost its gleam, and now we could see life as the endless procession of documents, obligations, and smiles with gritted teeth that it was.
8 CommentsThrashing Madness Re-Issues Betrayer Demos On Necronomical Exmortis / Forbidden Personality
Thrashing Madness Productions recently re-released both Betrayer “Necronomical Exmortis” and “Forbidden Personality” demos as a single Necronomical Exmortis / Forbidden Personality CD. Full length Calamity remains planned for the future.
3 CommentsTags: betrayer, death metal, Speed Metal
Birth A.D. Releases Formerly Shelved Song “Separate Corners”
Inspired by recent events, Texas thrash/crossover band released a song from a demo cut in 2016. This song, “Separate Corners,” points out that we cannot all get along, and maybe humanity should just take a time out in its respective corners by religion, class, race, special interest, etc., until at least some of us get our shit together.
14 CommentsTags: birth a.d., Crossover, Hardcore Punk, Thrash
Last Copies: Deteriorate Rotting In Hell Reissue Nearly Sold Out
From the squirrely sub-sub-genre of death metal that made us of flowing tremolo riffs as well as Slayer did, joining compatriots like Massacra and Vader, Deteriorate issued forth its first album, Rotting In Hell, to distribution in North America by J.L. America back in the hazy days of maturing underground metal.
6 CommentsTags: death metal, deteriorate
Earache Records Unveils Morbid Angel Altars of Madness: Ultimate Edition 2CD
Record companies continue digging in their vaults to release rare material and actual remasters from classic underground metal bands, bypassing the tendency for ProTools “remasters” that amounted to compression of tracks ripped from the existing CD, in an effort to appeal to Generation X as they head toward five decades.
4 CommentsTags: death metal, earache records, morbid angel
Ripper Unleashes Paranormal Waves EP
Despite starting out as a powerful fusion of German and American speed metal, Ripper continues progressing into Voivod and Pestilence territory with their latest EP, Paranormal Waves, released digitally on March 30, 2020.
4 CommentsTags: progressive metal, ripper, Speed Metal
Black Funeral Release “Kassaptu Lemuttu” From Upcoming Scourge of Lamashtu
Vampyric/Ooccult black metal veterans Black Funeral released a single entitled “Kassaptu Lemuttu (Incantations of Zaqiqu-Demons of the Underworld)” in preparation for their upcoming album entitled Scourge of Lamashtu, set to be released on July 3rd throughIron Bonehead Productions.
2 CommentsTags: black funeral, Black Metal
Cenotaph The Gloomy Reflections Of Our Hidden Sorrows Re-issue Sells Out In 48 Hours
Mexican death metal band Cenotaph forged a unique style of Central American death metal much as Sepultura did for Brazil, and influenced all New World old school death metal bands to follow.
No CommentsTags: cenotaph, Chaos Records, death metal
Cloudflare Founder Enjoyed Opeth
When death metal first came about, people believed it would never make it into the mainstream “culture” of our trend-based, democratic society. It turned out that industry just made an emo/metal hybrid and called it “technical death metal” so that neckbeard fedora barista hipsters can now claim they, too, listen to “outlaw music.”
12 CommentsTags: cloudflare, lee holloway, mainstream culture, opeth
Ex-Abyssum Project El Nigromante Releases D.E.D.I. Daemons Around Me
Ambient music can mean anything. To most people, it means floaty electronica; in a more analytical sense, it means music which operates by a principle of sonic texture and layering, with lead voices disconnected from percussion so that melody leads the composition, allowing a new flexibility in composition.
1 CommentTags: Abyssum, Ambient, atmospheric, el nigromante